Endangered Species

​Seth Hulett of Audubon Washington searches Horse Heaven Hills for greater sage grouse, last officially seen in 2018, to secure ecosystem funding.

Wildlife officials are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest or conviction regarding the illegal killing of a gray wolf in Central Oregon.

The groups argued the dam, located about 70 miles east of Eugene on the McKenzie River, has prevented endangered Chinook salmon and bull trout from migrating and blocked access to cold water.

In Oregon and Washington, there were at least 11 wolf poachings last year, prompting state agencies and nonprofits to offer nearly $200,000 in rewards for information leading to arrests.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife has proposed protections for the monarch butterfly under the endangered species act. We'll hear from a biologist to learn more.

A group of endangered California condors in far northern California faced a lead poisoning scare this month, with one bird being sent for special treatment.

Some experts are worried that the removal of a rare plant on a Camas golf course is a sign of species losing federal protections too soon.

The Oregon Zoo's northern leopard frog recovery program reared nearly 100 frogs that now live in Washington's Columbia National Wildlife Refuge.

The decadeslong recovery of this trout is proving to be a rare success story among endangered species.

For years, conservationists and timber industry groups debated how to protect fish, frogs and salamanders while also logging trees on 10 million acres of privately owned lands. They came to an agreement called the Private Forest Accord, signed by former Gov. Kate Brown in 2022.